Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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2020

by Richard Dawson

Appears on nine lists

2 Albums of the Year 2019: Quietus
3 Top 50 Albums of 2019: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
10 Favorite Albums of 2019: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
14 75 Best Albums of 2019: Uncut
14 The 50 Best Albums of 2019: Far Out
15 The 50 Best Albums of 2019: Guardian
22 Favorite Albums of 2019: Jeremy D. Larson
51 75 Best Albums of 2019: Mojo
78 Albums of the Year 2019: Rough Trade

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Paste
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times

Trending Works

Cool Planet Guided by Voices
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art Shinichi Atobe
Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
The Open Book Sessions Ronica & The Blazing Stars
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
I Want to Live My Life Stars Hollow
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Orpheus vs. The Sirens Hermit and the Recluse
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Communion Park Jiha

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